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Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

The Radicalization of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

In eight pages Wood's text is evaluated in terms of primary issues involving the radical nature of the Revolutionary War in terms ...

Revolutionary War and Propaganda Uses

In ten pages this paper discusses how in Canada propaganda was used for Hessian mercenary defections during the Revolutionary War....

American Revolution and the Whig and Tory Political Parties

joining new political parties (CARF, 1998). The patriots who were also known as Whigs, were not disloyal to the Crown, but ...

Montclair, New Jersey History

This research paper consists of seven pages and presents a historical oveview of Montclair that starts with the precolonial time p...

Arthur Lefkowitz's George Washington's Indispensable Men

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

Revolutionary War and the British Loyalists

(Van Tyne, 1929). Those who remained loyal to the reign of George III were incapable of grasping the liberal concept of individua...

American Colonies and Mercantilism

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

Factors Leading to the Revolutionary War

make them themselves. This is but one example of the types of increasing regulations which began to severely restrict the colonis...

Post American Revolution Minority Creditors' Oppression

After the British left the shores of America, the young country was faced with how to keep their economy afloat. Credit became one...

Women and the Revolutionary War

start a new land and women were respected in relationship to what they did do in those regards. They were an essential part of the...

Revolutionary War Caused by Mercantilism

the task becomes difficult. The only way that countries could survive economically was to encourage colonialism. Colonies provided...

Thomas Paine's Political Propaganda

he inspired two nations. Kindig (2003) summarizes that Paine: "communicated the ideas of the...

Slavery and the Revolutionary War

land become independent. But, with the slaves they truly had their own possessions which they desired to keep. This is perhaps one...

Jews in PA

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

Ben Franklin, America's Colonial Printer

works of the time, self-published, and were handed out to Bostonian readers by the twelve-year-old author himself (DuHadaway 34). ...

American Revolution and How the Colonists Achieved Victory

of Guilford Courthouse took place on March 15, 1781 and some say that was the beginning of the end of what was known as the revolu...

5 Questions on the Revolutionary War Answered

country in regards to what direction the nation should take. "[C]onstitutional issues lay at the bottom of the dispute. Andrews, f...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

US Slavery and the Impact of the Revolutionary War

that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights"1 Here, then, is the contradiction between perception...

Life of Benjamin Franklin from the Revolutionary War until the U.S. Constitution

general, an office he held for one year" (Anonymous Benjamin Franklin, 2002; franklin.htm). In the year 1775 he traveled to Can...

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

Tom Paine: Common Sense

that would "sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge" (Paine). The alternative was to return to British control, wh...

The Repercussions of the “Boston Massacre”

the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...

Overview of the Revolutionary War

revoke the three pence tax on each pound of tea(Schwarz 110). This refusal to lift the tax on American sales caused an uproar sta...

United States Foreign Policy Through the Ages

America as a sovereign power following the American Revolutionary War, there have been many conflicting views on what constitutes ...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Media and the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

Laying the Grounds for Revolution: The Seven Years’ War

the French and Indian War-or at least that part of it fought in North America goes by that name. This paper is a first-person narr...